Prototype devices capable of playing digital audio files have existed as far back as the late ‘70s, but the first MP3 Player, as these devices came to be known, arrived about three years after the MP3 ...

Apple’s first flash-based music player features circular, clickable controls but no screen. A switch on the back lets you choose between Shuffle and Play in Order modes. The 1GB player holds an ...

It would be quite a few years before the bigger names in consumer electronics jumped into the portable media player market. The earliest devices came from from smaller brands, although RCA (Thomson ...